video; un: altea

[juniberries]

[video feels most natural to the princess, and from the lighting and background of the feed it's apparent she's recording this not on the Eluvio, but from her own ship. she also looks quite serious about what she's about to say. oh and her voice is like...British but very obviously not actually British.]

To those few of us on the network: Greetings. I am Princess Allura of the Castle of Lions, and I have been traveling with the fleet for well over a month at this point in time. It has come to my attention that...not only is some Earthling holiday fast approaching, but more importantly there are new arrivals having been brought in by the very anomalies that have trapped us here.

[and yes!! you have heard her loud and clear: she said trapped.]

I wish to extend my own personal welcome to these newcomers, but I also regret to inform you that the nature of this fleet may not be...as pleasant as you may have hoped. Just recently, a handful of teams had been sent down to what had once been a nearby planet, Oros, to not only research the land and its people, but to retrieve a relic of sorts, of which the nature has still not been made clear to the rest of us.

[Allura frowns, expression hard, and there's an obvious pause as she attempts to gather herself, looking away from the camera momentarily.]

Somehow, something had went wrong during these missions, and the planet Oros was destroyed. The Fek and the Trilk who walk among us as fellow passengers are the very last of their kind; refugees due to...what I hope to say had been a mistake.

I am not looking to lower morale, or take anything away from the upcoming holiday if you are to celebrate it. But I only look to inform newcomers of the situation they have arrived to, and...to ask that we continue to extend our hospitality to those who have lost everything.

[AND JUST WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE SHE'S NEARLY DONE WITH HER SPEECH, she continues.]

Also, among our newcomers are the Paladins of Voltron, and while that name may mean little here, we still have a duty to uphold as Defenders of the Universe. [SORRY GUYS YOU AREN'T GETTING ANY VACATION TIME HERE.] And it is with their arrival and recollection of events that have not yet happened that I...am beginning to suspect that our being here may not go noticed or even change what goes on back where we're from.

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video; un: cpt andor

[ouzel]

I can support the idea that our arrival here does nothing to change the futures in place where we come from.

[ Because he's alive here, dead back home, and Luke Skywalker is walking, talking evidence of that. So.]

Which poses a lot of problematic questions about the nature of our arrivals or even the possibility that we are the same people who left our homes behind.

[ We could all be clones for all we know, okay?

That said, Cassian takes a moment. He's nosy, these threads are all (so far) public, and he can think of at least two people who aren't chiming in that could. Not that he blames them. ]

We have been told just enough to make things seem plausible.

It's good for you to make this attempt to get people to question the role of power, here.

We were asked to volunteer this time. Next time I doubt it will be a request.

[juniberries]

[oof she does. not want to think about the possibility of not being the same person who left her universe behind, but she's not had experience with clones at the very least.]

You have had a similar experience with those you know?

[a much easier question to start with.]

And...I thank you. I think considering the circumstances, and what little information we have all been given as a group, some exercise in caution is important. What had happened to Oros was a tragedy, and we must dig deeper into what went wrong, and what that Relic is.

I certainly hope they will not resort to force.

[ouzel]

There are people here from a future that is directly related to the actions of myself and those I know. Our lives, the circumstances, have not changed in their history, even though it is our future.

We can certainly hope but I feel we may need to be prepared for the scenario in which things do not escalate slowly.

[juniberries]

That...is very useful knowledge. Perhaps this means, in time, there will be a way back.

[AND THEN. MORE IMPORTANTLY.

the following feed is then PRIVATE]

Perhaps we should discuss such preparation in private then.

PR

[ouzel]

Do you have a preference as to where?

PR

[juniberries]

The Castle of Lions. If you request a shuttle, it would be able to take you there. It's the only place I am certain we will not be overheard.

Perhaps we can make arrangements sometime next week, following the Earthling holiday.

[BECAUSE SURELY. NOTHING BAD WILL HAPPEN THEN....]